Anyone want to see my brain? We'll be talking brain imaging and statistics in our Sunday show for @melbcomedyfestival.bsky.social. Tickets are free, but you'll need to register: www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows...
Rachel Rayner
@raynerexplainer.bsky.social
Science Communicator, performer, comedian, podcaster, writer, sometime poet. She/her
Can't wait for this exploration of science and art crossovers to foster some beautiful moments of creativity. #sciencepoetry
Alicia Sometimes@aliciasometimes.bsky.social · 2y agoExcited to be on stage again after a long while - Sat 12 April, MICF (4pm, Library on The Dock)! Free! Join host @raynerexplainer.bsky.social in a live recording for her Australian Highlights podcast - exploring captivating stories behind Australian innovations in science, art & culture. Fun!
New ep! Corey Tutt, founder of DeadlyScience, knows the power of representative educational resources & role models. "Indigenous kids used to say they wanted to be a deadly footballer now they want to be a deadly scientist.” Hear Corey's story & his steadfast vision to make STEM a place for all.
Thanks for the shout out @scienceinpublic.bsky.social!
Science in Public@scienceinpublic.bsky.social · 2y ago>Quantum Year steps up: Brian Greene at @worldscifest.bsky.social >"First deployable biological computer" says Cortical Labs >Australian Highlights: new podcast by @raynerexplainer.bsky.social >Media training workshops across Australia Plus more in our latest Science bulletin scienceinpublic.com.au
There be nerds here... especially as the new episode of Australian Highlights has an #LOTR connection... australianhighlights.com.au/vanessamoss #ASKAP #SAURON @iamseizure.bsky.social
Something beautiful for the weekend: the story of Harriet & Helena Scott. Dr Vanessa Finney, Australian Museum, shares the lives & works of our first professional female illustrators & how they continue to inspire: australianhighlights.com.au/scottsisters Image: Watercolour by Harriet Scott.
Ah! Just remembered I have to do the splits on stage for the New Zealand International Science Festival in June... not sure that range of motion exists anymore...why do I do this to myself??!
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New episode in time for #IWD where I get to talk to @astrokatross.bsky.social about the work of #IncludeHer - giving credit where credit is due for the science we're learning about today. australianhighlights.com.au/katross
Say what???! This Saturday in Adelaide, we discuss past and future innovators, and the joy of storytelling. It's free and you don't need a ticket! Come to... I forget... Ah, just google it: Australian Highlights Adelaide Fringe...if the copy-paste isn't too fiddly.
#Perth! It's Fringe season! Tickets still available to the LIVE launch events for the series Australian Highlights this weekend: fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/aus...
Australian Highlights - Live | FRINGE WORLD Festival - 17 Jan to 16 Feb 2025
The Australian Highlights podcast and article series is the place where we find the innovative people and ideas which are not – yet! – common knowledge. Join us for a live recording where we'll be bri...
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Two episodes of my new podcast series, Australian Highlights, is launching Saturday, 8 February. Our exceptional highlight is innovator Mik Jade, one of the most amazing people I've had the privilege to speak to.
Check out this new cosmic weirdo discovered using @csiro.bsky.social's ASKAP telescope! It spins so slowly that you could watch both the Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers and still have time leftover before it finishes a full rotation Read more: theconversation.com/blinking-rad...
Blinking radio pulses from space hint at a cosmic object that ‘shouldn’t exist’
The slowest ‘cosmic lighthouse’ ever found challenges our understanding of how neutron stars work.
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Using new, advanced telescopes like CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope has shown this supernova remnant to be closer than previously thought. Discovered in 1988, G278.94+1.35 is estimated to be 8,800 light years away. Now, this figure is at 3,300 light years. Credit: Filipović et al., 2024
Our trailer is here! Give it a listen and subscribe on your favourite podcast app! australianhighlights.com.au/trailer
Australian Highlights
and celebrating the people behind them
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Last minute Chrissy gift for the Perth set? Why not tickets to Fringe World? Why not this show... Across two nights of laughter with Perth's finest thinkers, discover the fields where Australia is leading the way: we'll head into space on Sat, 8 Feb, then bring science to life on Sun, 9 Feb.
Australian Highlights - Live | FRINGE WORLD Festival - 17 Jan to 16 Feb 2025
The Australian Highlights podcast and article series is the place where we find the innovative people and ideas which are not – yet! – common knowledge. Join us for a live recording where we'll be bri...
fringeworld.com.au
Issue 19 of the science, poetry, & art journal Consilience, has just been published! This issue features poetry and artwork that explores the scientific topic of ‘Insects’. www.consilience-journal.com/issue-19 #SciComm #SciArt 🧪 #Poetry
Consciousness (Issue 19) — Consilience
Issue 19 of Consilience features poetry and artwork that explores the topic of 'insects'.
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I've been hiding away working on a big project that I'm so nervous about! It's a podcast and article series that I'll be touring around the festivals next year. It's also online at www.australianhighlights.com.au
We've heard of spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies, lenticular galaxies, even irregular galaxies. BUT HAVE YOU HEARD OF CORKSCREW GALAXIES?! Awesome work from CSIRO friends using #ASKAP. @raynerexplainer.bsky.social covers: www.instagram.com/p/C-myBWpMJR... academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... 🔭🧪📡
ASKAP reveals the radio tail structure of the Corkscrew Galaxy shaped by its passage through the Abell 3627 cluster
ABSTRACT. Among the bent-tail radio galaxies common in galaxy clusters are some with long, collimated tails (so-called head-tail galaxies) shaped by their
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My goodness, what a fucking fantastic night. You guys were amazing! Thank you for coming, you absolutely made it a blast.
Calling all nerds, dorks and the curious... come hang out with me (described as Dr Karl meets Barbie) next weekend - there will be puns, jabs at the patriarchy, yoga and quantum physics!! Tix: sydneycomedyfest.com.au/event/rachel-r…
Happy Easter to all those who celebrate! Especially to those who celebrate the hatching of the Bunny from the Egg. A famously mammalian thing to do.
Anyone here have Melb International Comedy Festival recommendations, or something they would love to go to but just can't make?
Alright - what's your favourite science puns? Next week is the Victorian debut of my show, Atomically Correct for the Melb Int Comedy show. I can't wait to share my fave quantum puns and atomic entendre. Tickets: www.comedyfestival.com.au/2024/shows/a...
It was so awesome to introduce to this crazy, zany world. Thank you for coming along and being so awesome on stage! 🤩
Fun Fact Science with Kovi@funfactscience.com · 3y agoIt's hard to find the words to describe the whirlwind that was my weekend at Adelaide Fringe, but I would probably go with: exhausting, disheveled, exhilarating, and cauliflower. #fringe #comedy #science #Adelaide
A man on the street told me I had a lucky face, but I needed to think less. Did not ask me to smile though!
Cheap science comedy tickets for Melbourne! Ends 31 Jan (that's Tuesday) www.comedyfestival.com.au/2024/shows/a...
